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Textual Features | Bryony Lavery | The title More Light (which sounds like a quotation of the famous last words of Goethe
) is here spoken by the dying Emperor as he is conveyed into a splendid tomb whose building has... |
Intertextuality and Influence | May Laffan | Set largely in Laffan's home town of Dublin, Hogan, M.P. captures an Ireland whose growing Catholic middle class is challenging the long empowered Protestant ascendancy. The action takes place three or four years before... |
Textual Features | Lucy Knox | The volume contains forty-seven original poems and sixteen translations from German—fourteen of them from Goethe
—and two from Italian. “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 240 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Jolley | |
Friends, Associates | Anna Brownell Jameson | ABJ
met Ottilie von Goethe
, the widow of Goethe
's son August; Jameson supported her when she became pregnant out of wedlock in 1835. Thomas, Clara. Love and Work Enough: The Life of Anna Jameson. University of Toronto Press. 77-9, 92 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Anna Brownell Jameson | The book is also a model of female erudition, peppered with foreign phrases, references to earlier Shakespeare critics, to the visual arts, and to other authors, including the ancient Greek dramatists and the German romanticists... |
Literary responses | Anna Mary Howitt | Rossetti deeply admired this picture, which was Pre-Raphaelite in technique, showing a woman in mourning pose in sunlight, and was inspired by Goethe
's Faust. Howitt's paintings generally focused on melancholy female subjects or... |
Education | Julia Ward Howe | Although she briefly attended young ladies' schools, JWH
was mainly educated at home. She was tutored by Joseph Cogswell
, who would go on to head the Astor Library
. Under his instruction she mastered... |
Textual Features | John Oliver Hobbes | She writes that the passion for Wagner
among the precious and intellectually snobbish is dying out; he is less fashionable now, while Bayreuth is developing a populist, carnival aspect. Wagner snobs, she says, have been... |
Textual Features | Isabel Hill | The main ambition of Brother Tragedians was to reduce prejudices typically directed towards actresses and actors, by demonstrating their many virtuous qualities. Athenæum. J. Lection. 345 (1834): 432 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Felicia Hemans | FH
studied German earnestly during this period of her life, and preferred Schiller
to Goethe
. Elwood, Anne Katharine. Memoirs of the Literary Ladies of England, from the Commencement of the Last Century. Henry Colburn. 235 Hughes, Harriet Browne Owen, and Felicia Hemans. “Memoir of Mrs. Hemans”. The Works of Mrs. Hemans, W. Blackwood, pp. 1-315. 54 |
Publishing | Felicia Hemans | Sources suggest that FH
contributed, probably around 1821, essays on foreign literature (probably Italian poets) to the Edinburgh Magazine and Literary Miscellany, perhaps following an essay on Spanish literature to Blackwood's the year before... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Felicia Hemans | The volume takes its epigraphs and historical starting-points from a wide range of sources, including major male Romantics—Wordsworth
, Byron
, Coleridge
, Goethe
, Schiller
—and lesser-known contemporaries including women—Elizabeth Ogilvy Benger |
Intertextuality and Influence | Beatrice Harraden | The epigraph, she said, came from an (unidentified) old English author. Galbraith,. “Things Literary in London Gossip”. New York Times. |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Anne Grant | Her range of literary reference and comment is wide: as well as Richardson
(whose Clarissa she unequivocally praises), Grant, Anne. Letters from the Mountains. Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme. 2: 45-8 |
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